This year's literary parody du jour, Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, gives us a good dollop of such recognition and subversion its opening sentence: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."
Bulwer-Lytton Imitation Contest (worst opening sentence)
This year's literary parody du jour, Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, gives us a good dollop of such recognition and subversion its opening sentence: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."